High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Woodley is a Federal-style hilltop house in Washington, D.C., constructed in 1801. It has served as the home to influential leaders, such as Grover Cleveland, Martin Van Buren, and Henry L. Stimson, and is now the home of the Maret School. When originally built, it was based on the Woodley Lodge in Reading, England. Coincidentally, given the mansion's original site, the word "Woodley" means "clearing in the woods." A Maret School-based organization called the Woodley Society was created in 1994 to study its history. Since then, it has become an association of students, faculty, and alumni, which has conducted significant research in a number of archives and libraries in the Greater Metropolitan Washington area and beyond. In 2008, the head of the group, Historian Allerton Kilborne, a very well respected longtime Maret teacher, published a book about Woodley. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном...

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